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Well he did sorta get digitised as he got "pulled into" the artifact. Just wild guesing here, but it could be a derivative of the Composer. Maybe it was for turning humans into monitors and other ancillas, whereas the Composer was an unfinished tech aimed at turning humans and Forerunners alike into digital forms in order to survive the Flood.

I don't think so. We've seen the real digitization process in-game with the Composer, and this was nothing like that. If my theory's right and it's a container to preserve things, then the digitization fate of the Composer can't be used, otherwise how would the Librarian have reseeded life after the Halo Array fired? If that's the case, then it can't possibly be a digitization process else the original plan of the Didact's using the Composer would've been fine in the first place.

I don't think so. We've seen the real digitization process in-game with the Composer, and this was nothing like that. If my theory's right and it's a container to preserve things, then the digitization fate of the Composer can't be used, otherwise how would the Librarian have reseeded life after the Halo Array fired? If that's the case, then it can't possibly be a digitization process else the original plan of the Didact's using the Composer would've been fine in the first place.

Well the Composer was a flawed design cos the Forerunners wanted it to preserve sentient beings in digital forms with the eventual aim of turning them back to organics once the Flood is gone. Obviously that didn't work and the Didact repurposed it to turns humans into Prometheans instead.

The reason the Forerunners rejected the Composer was because once a life form gets digitised, it can't revert back to organic. Apparently turning them into AI's was fine (Monitors were originally humans, after all), which is what I am guessing the Artifact might have been used for.

There are lots of simpler ways to preserve and reseed life. The Librarian could simply index all the relevant genetic coding for any particular species and reseed as was timely. The existing humans and Forerunners and all other sentient species didn't get to "live on", which is what you were probably thinking about. They died as the Halos fired.

1. Halsey did design the Infinity.
2. The Infinity's engines are actually Forerunner tech (possibly jury-rigged post-haste, seeing that they're acting like a computer backdoor without the Infinity crew realizing it?) and not designed by humans.
3. The artifact can also act as a teleportation/file transfer device.
4. Looks like even in 255x they still don't have a proper antivirus/firewall.
5. The Elite at the end must've watched The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and taken a liking to the Uruk-Hai of Isengard.

I'm not sure what Halsey and Lasky's actual heights are, but this ep made me notice how tall the Spartan-IVs were compared to normal humans. Until now I had figured that, because they underwent body augmentation at an age where they had already reached physical maturity, they couldn't get any bigger (not to mention that the Mjolnir gear tends to give the wearer more noticeable bulk), but it seems I was wrong. Oh well, I was probably not paying attention to this until now.

I feel it's fitting that they're starting to reveal the Chief's face. Always before he was a shallow character with a mostly-empty backstory so players could impose their own personality on him. Now that they're developing his character, he should have a face to go with it.

I'm not sure what Halsey and Lasky's actual heights are, but this ep made me notice how tall the Spartan-IVs were compared to normal humans. Until now I had figured that, because they underwent body augmentation at an age where they had already reached physical maturity, they couldn't get any bigger (not to mention that the Mjolnir gear tends to give the wearer more noticeable bulk), but it seems I was wrong. Oh well, I was probably not paying attention to this until now.

I wouldn't totally trust official heights cause sometimes they're wonky. I'd go with the rendered cutscenes, as they seem to be about the best.

And keep in mind. This is what Palmer looked like next to Chief.

I'd guesstimate that most of the SIV's are in the six and a half foot range, with Chief in armor being 7'2. (that's 200cm and 218cm respectively for metric system users)

...somehow the disinclination of any of the SIV's to try to stop Chief when he went awol seems quite sensible

Man. I do find it amusing how TOTALLY unimpressed Halsey is with the Spartan IV's. They really should have picked someone other than the rejects from Majsetic to babysit Halsey!

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Of what little they've shown, too wrinkly imo. Note that the Chief had spent years in cryo, so he ought to look younger that he actually is.

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Keep in mind. Getting burned while being woken up fast, and in armor in cryosleep is something to consider. More to the point, he doesn't look too disimilar to Jorge, whose about the same age, presumably the same cryo time as chief.

Course another thing that might be considered is that Chief has just come out of a prolonged combat operation, so he just happens to look like shit.

@Roger Rambo:
Even the rendered scenes can be somewhat contradicting. I mean, when the Chief linked up with Lasky and Palmer's party after the Infinity's crash-landing, Palmer told him "I thought you'd be taller". In that scene, the height difference isn't as noticeable as in the Legendary Ending's final cutscene.

Of course, Palmer's comment could be interpreted as a (wry) joke.

And, yes, I know that scene was rendered by the game engine (or so it seems to me) as opposed to pre-rendered CGI for the LE cutscene and, therefore, proportions will be inconsistent because 343 used different 3D models for either cinematic.

As for MC's wrinkles...
Don't forget it's a close-up and wrinkles will therefore be more noticeable. On top of that, Spartan-IIs, even early in the Humanity-Covenant war, already sported a nice collection of scars, due to either intensive training and active combat (anti-insurgency warfare). In FUD's last episode, you can clearly see that both Fred and Kelly already had a couple of scars on their heads/faces.

In H4's legendary ending cutscene, the Chief has two scars around his left eye, one on his eyebrow and one on his cheekbone. There might be one on the right side, but it could be a visual trick caused by the camera's angle.

As for the rest, well...you could chalk it up to lack of sleep. I mean, he only rests when he gets knocked out - otherwise he's continuously peppering the landscape with ammunition. C'mon, can't you see those dark circles around his eyes? J/K
P.S. Yes, I know there is a theory making the rounds, according to which his dark eyes are

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a sign that the genesong implanted into him by the Librarian is doing some weird stuff to his genome.

About Jorge, I've read somewhere that he spent the majority of his years deployed on Reach, sort of like a home-based Spartan. So he probably didn't get to spend much time in cryo if he wasn't frequently being redeployed elsewhere like the Chief, hence the normal aging. It also explains why he spoke fluent Hungarian, due to the prominent Hungarian settlements on Reach.

@Roger Rambo:
Even the rendered scenes can be somewhat contradicting. I mean, when the Chief linked up with Lasky and Palmer's party after the Infinity's crash-landing, Palmer told him "I thought you'd be taller". In that scene, the height difference isn't as noticeable as in the Legendary Ending's final cutscene.

Of course, Palmer's comment could be interpreted as a (wry) joke.

It's a reference back in Halo CE, when the marines would respond to you showing up and saying "I'd thought you'd be taller!"

Hence why I put rendered cutscenes. In most of the rendered cutscenes (excluding the one with Lasky and Palmer together), The Spartans have been portrayed as TOWERING over regular humans.

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About Jorge, I've read somewhere that he spent the majority of his years deployed on Reach, sort of like a home-based Spartan. So he probably didn't get to spend much time in cryo if he wasn't frequently being redeployed elsewhere like the Chief, hence the normal aging. It also explains why he spoke fluent Hungarian, due to the prominent Hungarian settlements on Reach.

It's a reference back in Halo CE, when the marines would respond to you showing up and saying "I'd thought you'd be taller!"

Hence why I put rendered cutscenes. In most of the rendered cutscenes (excluding the one with Lasky and Palmer together), The Spartans have been portrayed as TOWERING over regular humans.
That, and Reach was Jorges homeplanet.

I forgot all about that joke back then. Haven't touch my Halo 1 in years, thanks for the information.

Also, yeah Chief is very tall. What is surprising is that Jorge happens to be only 2 inches taller than Chief.

What did you thought about Palmer's and the other Spartan IVs' reaction to Halsey? Understandable they would be wary, but to treat her like a monster is well........you know.